HTML Entities Tutorial

HTML entities are special characters that are used to display reserved characters in HTML. These characters include symbols such as <, >, and &. When you want to display these characters as text on a webpage, you need to use their corresponding entity code instead of the character itself. This prevents the characters from being interpreted as HTML code.

For example, if you want to display the less than sign (<) on a webpage, you would use the entity code &lt; instead of typing the actual character. This tells the browser to display the character as text instead of interpreting it as an HTML tag.

Here are some common HTML entities:

Character	Entity Code
<	&lt;
>	&gt;
&	&amp;

You can also use entity codes to display special characters that are not on your keyboard, such as © for the copyright symbol or € for the euro symbol.

Example

Let's say you want to display the following text on your webpage:

<Hello, World!>

Instead of typing <Hello, World!> directly into your HTML code, you would use the entity codes for the less than and greater than signs:

<Hello, World!>

When the webpage is rendered, it will display as:

<Hello, World!>

As you can see, the entity codes allow you to display reserved characters as text on your webpage without the browser interpreting them as HTML tags.